Quotes About Denial

Il modo più semplice di risolvere un problema è negare che esista.

Pregúntate qué sientes y qué te niegas a sentir.

For years I put up with Julián Bravo's mistreatment without calling it domestic violence, making excuses: It was an accident; he went too far because he'd had too much to drink; I provoked him; he had problems and he took them out on me, it won't happen again, he promised, he apologized. I

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

A few months before my dad died, his eyes had started to go, and his skin was turning green. When he finally went to hospital, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. None of us kids knew why the old man ignored the doctors and refused their help, but none of us were surprised, either.

It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.

I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.